FEBRUARY 16, 1865.-Attacks upon the garrisons of Athens and Sweet Water, Tenn.

REPORTS.

No. 1.-Gen. Robert E. Lee, C. S. Army commanding Army of Northern Virginia.

No. 2.-Brig. Gen. John C. Vaughn, C. S. Army.

No. 1.

Report of Gen. Robert E. Lee, C. S. Army, commanding Army of Northern Virginia.

HDQRS. ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, February 24, 1865.

Gen. Echols reports that detachments of Vaughn’s cavalry struck the railroad beyond Knoxville at Sweet Water and Athens, capturing the garrison at both places. Sixty men of Second Ohio Regiment, with horses and equipments, were taken.

R. E. LEE.

Hon. J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, Secretary of War.

No. 2.

Reports of Brig. Gen. John C. Vaughn, C. S. Army.

BRISTOL, February 20, 1865.

A small force from my command struck the railroad at Athens, west of Knoxville, capturing the garrison, which has caused two regiments to be sent below from this force above Knoxville.

J. C. VAUGHN, Brig.-Gen.

BRISTOL, February 23, 1865.

Capt. Maston, with seventy-five men from my brigade, captured the garrison at Sweet Water, forty-five miles below Knoxville, sixty mounted men, horses, and equipments of Second Ohio Regt.

J. C. VAUGHN, Brig.-Gen.

OR, Ser. I, Vol. 49, pt. I, p. 47.

CITY POINT, VA., February 25, 1865.

Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War:

The Richmond papers to day report nothing of interest. The following is taken from the Examiner:

Vaughn’s Cavalry in East Tennessee.

HDQRS., February 24, 1865.

Hon. J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, Secretary of War:

Gen. Echols reports that detachments of Vaughn’s cavalry struck the railroad beyond Knoxville at Sweet Water and Athens, capturing the garrisons at both places. Sixty men of the Second Ohio Regiment, with their horses and equipments, were captured.

R. E. LEE.

U. S. GRANT, Lieut.-Gen.

OR, Ser. I, Vol. 49, pt. I, p. 766.